Hi again Antionline, Long time no post, good to be back.
I searched through the forum lists and believe this is the most relevant for my issue ...

I haven't been to Antionline in awhile - a little over two years, and not just here but on my computer too. As you can imagine it was alittle groggy when I first booted it up and it got to the point where I had to do a PC recovery operation (using the manufacturers installed program from HP). I knew I would probably lose alot of my data and files but commenced regardless. She's working well now and when I was scanning it today I was watching the 'location scanned' area when I saw some of the names of supposedly lost files flash by - this is on windows XP home. It said they were in c:/documents and settings/my user name - after the scan I tried to go to this location but it said "location is not available access denied. This is a normal folder I should be able to access, is it not? How do I regain access to this folder? Why have I lost access? How do I recover these files that I saw being scanned with my AV but thought I had lost?

I know Im asking alot for being gone so long, but I know this is a helpful community lol
Thanks in advance!